intrigeri: > sajolida wrote (05 Mar 2015 17:03:04 GMT) : >> I hereby propose to have the list of circuits accessible directly from >> the green onion as it is the case now in Vidalia. But I'm not sure how >> this fits with your architectural plans and related >> security implications. > > It should be no problem: assuming the green onion thingie is a GNOME > Shell extension (this seems to be the only reasonable way to do it > IMO), then it'll run as the `amnesia' users, who should be able to > start Tor Monitor anyway.
Cool! >> Alan, I'm not sure what are the implications of the deprecation of >> System Tray Icons as I couldn't find anything about that in the GNOME >> HIG. > > The HIG apparently doesn't capture everything that the code does. > Let me provide some background. In previous versions of GNOME, there > were two different things: > > * proper panel applets (e.g. NM's one) > * icons in the notification area (that very often were things that > should really be applets, but their authors were lazy and they > hijacked the notification area -- that's what we did for our own > OpenPGP applet, oops) Understood. > While with GNOME Shell: > > * the notification area isn't displayed by default anymore; Yeah, I've seen the redesign for 3.16 that you sent me. > * a third-party extension (topIcons) can be used to restore the old > notification area icons placement; no idea how long this hack will > work; That's #8309. > * what used to be "proper panel applets" can now be implemented as > GNOME Shell extensions. > >> But in Tails Jessie we still have various custom widgets in the top >> bar that expend to more features when you act on them: the Florence >> keyboard and the OpenPGP Applet. So I guess this is still acceptable... > > That's a temporary hack, made possible only via a third-party GNOME > Shell extension, and I'd like to get rid of as soon as possible > (https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/8309). Adding more stuff there > would add to the list of things that we'll have to > rewrite/replace later. Ok, so that confirms what I understood already. We can still put *some* stuff in the top bar (without much change for the user) but that needs to be done as GNOME Shell extensions. That's more of a infrastructure and code change than a UX change in the end. Good news. -- sajolida _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
